Introduction Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler Part I. Opening Interventions Work and the Labor Movement during the Pandemic Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler The Diseases Are the Symptoms: Working-Class Plagues--COVID-19 and Deaths of Despair Devan Hawkins Sorting Out the Politics of Inflation, Past and Present Samir Sonti Part II. Food, Labor, and Hospitality Crises and Essential Workers: The Impact of COVID-19 on Farmworkers and Guest Worker Programs Ismael García-Colón The Battle of the Shutdown: How Hospitality Workers Confronted Disaster Capitalism during the COVID-19 Pandemic Carlos Aramayo Part III. The Education Industry No Cuts--No Cops--No COVID: The Graduate Employees' Pandemic Strike at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Kathleen Brown Disability Justice and the Education Labor Movement during the COVID-19 Pandemic Kathryn M. Meyer Archival Labor and Labor Power: Using COVID Collections to Rethink History Making and the Labor Movement Lia Warner Part IV. The Healthcare Industry COVID, Caregiving, and Coping: Nurses' Frontline Work through a Pandemic Year Marian Moser Jones Healthcare Social Workers on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cracks, Flaws, and a Vision for Social Healthcare Jennifer Zelnick, Leigh Howard, Doris Joy, Maura Hagan, and Sandrine Etienne Part V. "New" Forms of Organizing Beyond Austerity America: Labor Animates New Coalitions in the Age of COVID-19 Puya Gerami Rediscovering Class: EWOC and Pandemic Labor Activism Connor Harney The Pandemic Revolt of New York City's Immigrant "Small Business" Unions Andrew B. Wolf Cannabis, COVID-19, and Racial Capitalism: Unionization in the Era of Inequality Eric Larson Epilogue Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler Contributors Index.